gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201401-29.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201401-29">
  <title>VIPS: Privilege Escalation</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability in VIPS could result in privilege escalation.</synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">vips</product>
  <announced>January 26, 2014</announced>
  <revised>January 26, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>344561</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="media-libs/vips" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">7.22.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">7.22.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>VIPS is a free image processing system.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>VIPS places a zero-length directory name in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which
      might result in the current working directory (.) to be included when
      searching for dynamically linked libraries.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could gain escalated privileges via a specially crafted
      shared library.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All VIPS users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=media-libs/vips-7.22.4"
    </code>
    
    <p>NOTE: This is a legacy GLSA. Updates for all affected architectures are
      available since November 23, 2010. It is likely that your system is
      already no longer affected by this issue.
    </p>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-3364">
      CVE-2010-3364
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:38:13 +0000">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:04:41 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>